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TO THE ARGENTINE! ARMY MEAT CONTRACTS. i- ; • LONDON, February 15. s In the Commons, ri|>lying to ques- , tions why tho recent Army tinned meat I contract was given to Argentina, Sit : I L. Worthington Evans said that there : were two Empire tenders respectively j 26 and 45 per cent above that accepted: consequently they were prohibitive, even after allowing for the preference normally given. The Government -was anxious to obtain Empire meat, but there was a limit to what ould be paid in the form of pireference. Neither the 26 nor the 45 per cent dearer permitted the contract to be given to the Empire. “COME TO BRITAIN.” ' LONDON, February 15. The “Come to Britain” movement fills a much wanted place in the national life, enabling Dominion people and Americans to know Britain better said Mr. Sydney Pascall, at a luncheon to the Rotarian. “It is estimated that 125,000 second-class visitors spend £2o'• each, totalling ten milion, whirl (amount of business isn’t to lie sneezed at, even in these capacious times.” BUY FROM BRITAIN! LONDON, February 15. Sir Max Muspratt, speaking at the Colonial Institute luncheon, emphasised that the high standard of living which the Dominions maintained, meant a high consumption of chemicals. China’s population was fifty times Australia’s i.ut she imported from Britain only onethird more chemicals than Australia. Despite tl*ir troubles, the Chinese were devloping consumption of chemicals, hut ns the population of Australia increased, it would become potentially an infinitely greater consumer of Britain’s chemical productions.